Vamos todos juntar as 300 mil moedas necessárias ao troco para os Maiorana. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Brazil: Plaintiffs try to silence one of the country’s leading journalists] Reference
There in the centre is the iron ring through which the lords and dames drove the heavy wooden troco-balls; and if you go into the garden-hall through that arched corridor you will see the actual balls that they used, and the long poles, with a kind of iron cup at their ends, with which the players pushed them -- forerunners of the modern croquet-box that lies beside them. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Too tired to rest herself by reading, she wandered out on the troco-ground followed by Camp. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
Then from the troco-ground I beheld that which looked promising, coquetting with Dickie's yearlings. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
A nightingale sang in the big, Portugal laurel at the corner of the troco-ground, and was answered by another singer from the coppice, across the valley, bordering the trout stream that feeds the Long. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
And it was some perception of just this -- the ceaseless push of event following on event, the ceaseless push of the yet unborn struggling to force the doors of life -- which moved Katherine to seriousness, as she stood alone on the smooth expanse of the troco-ground, in the soft, all-covering twilight, at the close of the day's hospitality. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
Now, as she passed out under the archway on to the square lawn of the troco-ground, bare-headed, in her pale dress, a sweet seriousness filling all her mind, even as the sweet summer twilight filled all the valley and veiled the gleaming surface of the Long Water far below, she felt wholly in sympathy with the aspect and sentiment of the place. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
"We buried him, in his blanket, under the big Portugal-laurel, where the nightingale sings, at the corner of the troco-ground, close to Camp the First and Old Camp. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
And his mother noted, not without a sinking of the heart, that the window-seat, which in his solitary moods Dickie most frequented, was precisely that one of the eastern bay which commanded -- beyond the smooth, green expanse and red walls of the troco-ground -- a good view of the grass ride, running parallel with the lime avenue, along which the horses from the racing stables were taken out and back, morning and evening, to the galloping ground. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
He came towards her -- that first Richard Calmady, her husband and lover -- across the smooth, green levels of the troco-ground which lay dusky in the mingling half-lights of the nearly departed sunset and the rising moon, as he had come to her a hundred times in life, back from the farms or the moorlands, from sport or from business, or from those early morning rides, the clean freshness of the morning upon him, after seeing his race-horses galloped. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
"Her ladyship's there, on the troco-ground. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
Here is a plugin to do it! http://www. tecnocracia.com.br/arquivos/dando-o-troco-na-wikipedia/lang/en. From Wordnik.com. [Wikipedia Links No Longer Passing PageRank] Reference
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